# FUP

Brack (slayer@kaiwan.com)
Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:43:13 PDT

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    At 10:15 AM 4/25/96 PDT, Guilherme Ramos wrote:
    >Taking the same trail of the recently FUP questions, I would like to know
    >if the words contained into the FUP README file...
    >
    >"Additionally, file read/write operations are allowed only over the directory
    >subtree rooted at the 'base directory', called 'files' by default, and
    >execute operations are allowed only from the directory called 'bin' by
    >default."
    >
    >...means that that directories must be created in the *root* directory.
    >Or: What if I don't have means to obtain a root password? Can't use FUP?
    >
    >TXs
    >
    the 'base directory' is the directory the moo executable is running in. You
    don't need root to use FUP.
    So if I have a moo server at /~moo, the files directory will be at
    /~moo/files and the bin directory at /~moo/bin.